I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.
BILL WALTONBob Dylan, Neil Young, The Beatles, Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Rolling Stones, Carlos Santana. So many of them are still around and still going strong. I go out to see them all the time.
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[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
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Tracy McGrady is doing things we’ve never seen from anybody – from any planet!
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There are four pillars to happiness, which is the ultimate goal in life-to be happy. Health is first, family is second, home is third. That safe place where you can go to and regroup, be in a safe place by yourself start over.
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I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
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The NCAA is working night and day trying to get Jerry, but no one from the NCAA ever questioned me during my four years at UCLA!
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Kevin Garnett is the prototype for the NBA player of the future. He’s already one of the greatest players to have played the game.
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Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.
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I’m a lifelong stutterer.
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Health is the most critical thing in our life. With your health anything is possible, without it you can’t do anything.
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My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain.
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It changes over the course of life, depending on how you’re feeling. There’s this incredible catalog of different songs, so it depends on what you’re hoping for, what your dream is and that song will come on.
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Yao Ming is the best thing to happen to the NBA in a long time. He is just a beautiful person inside and out. The vision, the creativity, the gentleness of spirit … he has it all.
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I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I’ve had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.
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You don’t win championships by just being normal, by just being average.
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Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history student, and the ability of being a performer.
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